State of NASA: UPDATE

Fiscal Year 2017 NASA Agency Fact Sheet
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The short story on the NASA 2017 budget, is a fair bit more money for Earth sciences, astrophysics, heliophysics, space technology and aeronautics. And a fair bit less money for planetary sciences, SLS and Orion. I must say this seems strange and disappointing as the items receiving the dramatic cuts tend to bring the most public support to NASA. This isn't to suggest that I feel other areas should have been cut. NASA receives too little money as an organization overall already and it stings to see items receive further reduced funding.

The Planetary Society has a decent writeup regarding the FY2017 budget for NASA here.

State of NASA Address today

Just a reminder that today at 1h30PM EST, the Sate of NASA address will be delivered by NASA administrator Charles Bolden. Live coverage can be followed on NASA TV.

The primary topics will be the boost to the NASA budget and how that will be utilized across the NASA research and development centers, followed by the Fiscal Year 2017 budget request. FY2017 may take space exploration a step back in funding. In a followup post, more details will be available.

Updated 11h45AM CST